To make the launcher look correctly press menu button then go to sense setting, then ui setting then select Tint AB and set AB Scale factot to 1. It should make the launcher look like in the pic above.

when i flash a rom i use my empty 1g sd and just have the rom i want to flash on it and i wipe all user data,sd-ext and dalvik-cache then go to flash zip menu and click toggle signature verify then flash zip from sd card works with no problems for me.

when i flash a rom i use my empty 1g sd and just have the rom i want to flash on it and i wipe all user data,sd-ext and dalvik-cache then go to flash zip menu and click toggle signature verify then flash zip from sd card works with no problems for me.